Lawyer denies Hadžić was armed, says he "hid abroad"

Goran Hadžić did not deny his identity and he received the Hague Tribunal indictment against him today, but he did not wish to plea on the charges.

Izvor: Tanjug

Wednesday, 20.07.2011.

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Goran Hadzic did not deny his identity and he received the Hague Tribunal indictment against him today, but he did not wish to plea on the charges. This is according Hadzic's lawyer Toma Fila, who addressed reported after attending the hearing in Belgrade on Wednesday. Lawyer denies Hadzic was armed, says he "hid abroad" The authorities announced that they arrested the former political leader of Serbs in Croatia this morning, north of Belgrade. “He (Hadzic) had been hiding for seven years and he spent much of that time abroad. He was arrested on Wednesday around 8.40 a.m. and it is not true that he had any weapons or personal documents on him,” Fila stated. Fila's comments came in the wake of a statement given by Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic, that the war crimes suspect had assumed a false identity and was armed at the time of the arrest. The investigative judge of the War Crimes Department adopted a decision on Wednesday wherein it established that all requirements for Goran Hadzic's extradition had been met. Fila said that his client "will renounce the right to appeal to the ruling on the fulfillment of presuppositions for his extradition to the Hague Tribunal". "Only the indictee himself has the right to renounce the right to appeal, and Hadzic will do that after he has been presented with the ruling," Fila said. Hadzic, the last Hague indictee at large, was arrested on Wednesday and will be kept in the detention unit of the District Court, located in the very building of the Special Court, until conditions for his extradition to the Hague Tribunal had been fulfilled. He has the right to appeal the decision within three days. Goran Hadzic at the Special Court on Wednesday

Lawyer denies Hadžić was armed, says he "hid abroad"

The authorities announced that they arrested the former political leader of Serbs in Croatia this morning, north of Belgrade.

“He (Hadžić) had been hiding for seven years and he spent much of that time abroad. He was arrested on Wednesday around 8.40 a.m. and it is not true that he had any weapons or personal documents on him,” Fila stated.

Fila's comments came in the wake of a statement given by Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević, that the war crimes suspect had assumed a false identity and was armed at the time of the arrest.

The investigative judge of the War Crimes Department adopted a decision on Wednesday wherein it established that all requirements for Goran Hadžić's extradition had been met.

Fila said that his client "will renounce the right to appeal to the ruling on the fulfillment of presuppositions for his extradition to the Hague Tribunal".

"Only the indictee himself has the right to renounce the right to appeal, and Hadžić will do that after he has been presented with the ruling," Fila said.

Hadžić, the last Hague indictee at large, was arrested on Wednesday and will be kept in the detention unit of the District Court, located in the very building of the Special Court, until conditions for his extradition to the Hague Tribunal had been fulfilled. He has the right to appeal the decision within three days.

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